18TH
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF KERALA
Second Day begins with
Competition Films
The second day of the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala, have a total of 52 films
across 12 categories. Among them, the main attraction is going to be the
screening of five films of the fourteen from the competition section.The first one to go to the
screen is debutant Sidharth Siva’s ‘101 Chodyangal’. The malayalam film,
screening at Kairali at 11 in the morning, is a student’s quest for the answers
of 101 questions through which he comes to face the realities of life. The film
made Siva receive the national award for best debut director.
Adi Adwan written and
directed Israeli film ‘Arabani’ has the screen space at Kairali at 2.30pm.
Arabani won the award for best screenplay at Jerusalem Film Festival 2013 as it
depicts the religious conflicts and the consequences caused by Narrow
mindedness of society.
Battle of Tabato, screening
at Kairali at 6 pm, is directed by Joao Viana. Recipient of the best debut film
in Berlin Film festival, this is Viana’s first full length feature. With a
difference in treatment, the film focuses on music, magic and post-colonial
angst in the West-African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
Inspired from the life of
renowned filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ will be shown at Kairali
at 8.30 pm. The bengali film is directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee.
Argentinean Suspense
thriller ‘Errata’ directed by Iván Vescovo will be showed at Sree Padmanabha at
9 pm. Prior to IFFK, Errata was part of Warsaw International Film Festival
2013.
Other than these, ‘Burn it
Djassa’, ‘Coming Forth by the Day’, ‘German Doctor’, ‘Between Yesterday and
Tomorrow’ are to be crowd pullers from the world movie section.
Harun Farocki’s ‘In
Comparison’, Goran Paskeljiv’s ‘When Day Breaks’, Claire Denis’ ‘No Fear
No Die’ and ‘35 Shots Of Rum’, T.Hariharan’s ‘Pazhashiraja’,
Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Vincere’ and Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ will be shown
in Contemporary Masters in Focus.
With all films as good as
other, the cinema lovers are all set to have a great day ahead at the festival.
Prof. John Kurakar
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